Habits Quotes

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Benjamin Franklin

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

John Dryden

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Samuel Smiles

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken

Warren Buffet

Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

Confucius

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Desiderius Erasmus

Pile up enough instances of intention and action and pretty soon you might push matters beyond the anxious realm of willpower into the clear skies of habit, where the autopilot can do the work.

Consuetudo est altera natura – Habit is second nature.

Auctoritates Aristotelis

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

Arthur Koestler

It doesn’t take a lot to make a big difference, it all comes down to our daily choices.

Pearl Chan

Habits are like supervisors that you don’t notice.

Hannes Messemer

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

Judah Leib Lazerov

A bad habit never disappears miraculously. It’s an undo-it-yourself project.

Abigail Van Buren

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.

William James

Keep it simple, make it meaningful, stick to it.

Our daily lives are often a series of habits played out through the day, a trammeled existence fettered by the slow accretion of our previous actions.

Leo Babauta

A habit must be established before it can be improved.

James Clear

Maintain the chain.

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

Habits which lower the standard of physical health enfeeble mental and moral strength.

Ellen G White

Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remearkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years. We all deal with setbacks but in the long run the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits. With the same habits, you’ll end up with the same results. But with better habits, anything is possible.

James Clear

A habit is a behaviour that has been repeated enough times to become automatic.

James Clear

Habits are reliable solutions to recurring problems in our environment.

James Clear

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

Many a person’s downfall comes in trying to change a bad habit by focusing on an undesirable behaviour instead of on a new behaviour to replace it.

The ultimate form of intrinsic motivation is when a habit becomes part of your identity. It’s one thing to say I’m the type of person who wants this. It’s something very different to say I’m the type of person who is this.

James Clear

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.

James Clear

Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.

James Clear

We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.

James Clear

With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.

James Clear

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him—and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

J Paul Getty

One discipline always leads to another discipline.

Jim Rohn

Bad habits are like a good bed – easy to get into but difficult to get out of.

Make good habits and they will make you.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Benjamin Franklin

Remember that you are daily weaving for yourself a web of habits. If these habits are according to the Bible rule, you are going every day in steps heavenward, growing in grace and the knowledge of the truth; and like Daniel, God will give you wisdom as He gave to him. You will not choose the paths of selfish gratification. Practice habits of strictest temperance, and be careful to keep sacred the laws which God has established to govern your physical being. God has claims upon your powers, therefore careless inattention to the laws of health is sin. The better you observe the laws of health, the more clearly can you discern temptation, and resist them, and the more clearly can you discern the value of eternal things.

Ellen G White

Never miss twice.

How can I create an environment that will naturally bring about my desired change?

James Clear

Resilience is born out of consistent rituals.

New goals don’t deliver new results, new lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.

James Clear

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.

Susanna Wesley

Any habit or practice which will weaken the nerve and brain power or the physical strength disqualifies for the exercise of the next grace which comes in after temperance – patience.

Ellen G White

Habit is overcome by habit.

Erasmus

The more you repeat a behaviour, the more you reinforce the identity associated with that behaviour.

James Clear

Identity in Latin = your repeated beingness.

Old habits die hard.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

A Trollope

Habit is not a trifle.

Plato

Habit is a second nature.

Cicero

Men are creatures of habits.

D G Croly

Learn to unlearn bad habits.

Antisthenes

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Ovid

Any sequence of mental action which has been frequently repeated tends to perpetuate itself; so that we find ourselves automatically prompted to think, feel, or do what we have been before accustomed to think, feel, or do, under like circumstances, without any consciously formed purpose, or anticipated of result.

William James

Habits are never to be neglected.

A Tscherning

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

St Augustine

It is habit to which all of us are more or less slaves.

La Fontaine

When possible, the brain makes a behavior into a habit, which saves effort and therefore gives us more capacity to deal with complex, novel, or urgent matters.

Gretchen Rubin

Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads us day by day.

Lamartine

Keep the currents of life pure by pure habits, and all thy being shall be healthful.

J O Barrett

Habit is a cable, we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

H Mann

Habits are easily acquired, and with difficulty laid aside; mans nature is changed by habit.

J Bartlett

How many habits and opinions do we begin from impulse, and persevere in from indolence!

C Danby

Good habits are always acquired, but bad habits come upon us when we are heedless and neglectful.

J W Barker

Habits influence the character pretty much as under currents influence a vessel, and whether they speed us on the way of our wishes, or retard our progress, their effect is not the less important because imperceptible.

Bovee

The current of the mind grows more and more restricted to the course in which habit has taught them to flow. These intellectual and moral habits form many peculiairites of character, and chiefly distinguish one individual from another; they are, therefore, of the utmost importance.

Goodrich

Man is a bundle of habits

Paley